26 Dark Website Designs That Work Well
I have compiled a showcase of the most fantastic dark website design. All of these designs work very well with each other. The colours, backgrounds, text effects, images and overall web design positioning has selected very carefully in order to make them top of their game, and a masterpiece within itself. If you think I have missed any out from the list of 26, then please feel free to drop in a comment. Remember to click on the images to view each website. Thanks to Ten Thousand Things for the title post image!
Take The Walk
This website stands out because of the red boxes and white text it uses on top of the black background.
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Starbucks Coffee At Home
The light text border on the dark background makes this design work very well.
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Evan Eckard
The white text and separating white lines make the content stand out from a dark background.
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Electricurren
All the black and white images, green splatters, and other miscellaneous background objects make this design fit nicely together with a dark background.
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Print Huge
This design uses dark blue as the main colour, and the text is a light blue to make it stand out. Also the giant printer on the right hand side lives up to the site name.
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Nice Lion Design
This design uses bright text, and then a different array of dark colours for the background / menu.
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Level 9
Uses a great array of colours, and the image border makes it stand out.
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Good Bytes
A beautiful selection of dark colours used on this site.
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Maurice Krijtenberg
One image that stands out on the dark background.
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Ten Thousand Things
Uses a dark space background, and a lovely slime green for the logo and nav that really stands out.
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Kavoon
Kavoon use a really stand out graphic on their homepage, along with white text on a dark background.
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Fred Maya
Uses a nice contrast of blues to make this dark web design work well.
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Creative Logic Media
This site uses a nice glow of colours as the header to make the menu stand out. Love the colours!
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Mike Poss
Mike uses a selection of illustrations in blue, pink and white to make his site stand out from the dark background.
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Sato
This site uses some sext colours! I love the red on the black, looks so nice.
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VLP
I love the green grass contrast on the dark background.
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We Are Cyan
This website uses 3 simple colours. Black, white and cyan. Its simple, but it works.
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Visit Mix
Mix has a very colourful navigation menu, that outshines the rest of the site. And it looks really great on the dark coloured background too!
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Let It Bleed
The dark blue and red colours work extremely well to make this site looks fantastic.
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New Concept
New Concept uses brown and red colours and have a floral style effect.
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AdaptD
This website uses a dark background, but a different bright colour for each section. Love the idea!
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Product Planner
This site is in the style of a black board. I really like it (oldskool).
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Plan 4 Play
A simple design can work wonders. Very minimal colours with this one looks great!
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Sugar Rhyme
This site comes across with a dark rich colour scheme. The different shades of brown work so well.
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Sofa Surfer
A nice rich background gradient and some great choice of text colours go along way.
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Noe Design
The text effects, colours, and positioning works very well on this dark background website design.
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Franky (3 years ago)
And of course mine! http://www.frankyaguilar.com
Rogerio Fratin (3 years ago)
Very good! Thank’s a lot!
Keith (3 years ago)
Nice collection.
This has to be one of my favourites: http://www.eeci2009.com/
Designect.Com (3 years ago)
And my site: http://designect.com
Nice collection. Thank you!
Manz (3 years ago)
I’m a fan of the dark colour palette… even though eveything has it’s place. Sites that are text heavy need to be on a light colour. In my opinion.
http://www.gritfx.com
panneer (3 years ago)
Superb collections, thanks
JK (3 years ago)
Do dark website designs work at all for target audience say over 50 years?
I know a lot of photographers’ websites carry dark design, some provide the option of viewing images on a white background.
Andy (3 years ago)
Hmmm, thats actually a good idea.
Graphic Design Melbourne (3 years ago)
Nice collection Andy!
Definitely a few there that inspire you and make you green with envy
Bruno Monteiro (3 years ago)
You can Visit this website: http://www.epcc.pt
Andy (3 years ago)
Nice
hiddenson (3 years ago)
I use dark background as default on my site, but I give the option to reverse to black on white for the users that may prefer it. I too love a touch of red, my favorite color.
Nice review: I particularly enjoyed seeing other websites than the usual bunch gathered in “xx websites you should see” posts. You actually did your homework, kudos on that!
http://hiddenson.graphility.com
Bogdan (3 years ago)
Indeed, these black layouts looks sleek, but I always believed that is not such a good idea to put white text on black background because your eyes will hate you.
JD (3 years ago)
Thanks for sharing the list of great dark website design, Creative Logic Media is my favourite!
Sarah Camp (3 years ago)
Hi Andy! This is a really great showcase post. Probably the best I’ve seen so far of dark designs. Great work putting this together!
Stephanie (3 years ago)
I made my website dark as well ( http://www.stephaniezuroff.com )… after a lot of debate. I just feel like the darker, richer color pallet really reflects me as a person as a designer… so I went with it. I know there’s a lot of talk in the web design community about how hard it is to pull off a dark design… and I think I did an okay job at it, but I would love to hear more feedback from other designers!
Chris (3 years ago)
Hey Andy, this is a great inspiration for black layouts!
theComplex (3 years ago)
Great list! These sites do work well. Very inspiring.
Michele Adamo (3 years ago)
Killer photography makes this site work amazingly well. http://www.charitywater.org/
Jason (3 years ago)
Dark is where it’s at!
Sessizcrew (3 years ago)
thanks http://www.sessizcrew.com http://www.sessizdizayn.com
stron internetowych (3 years ago)
Very nice pack
.Thx
Martin (3 years ago)
And http://www.martiniglesias.eu
Listed in: http://www.designer-daily.com/20-great-web-designs-with-a-dark-background-4592
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Andy (3 years ago)
I ran it through the what the font tool, and it came back with the font: Benton Sans Cond Bold
Aftab Khalid (3 years ago)
@Paul Smith
This is Helvetica series
nice collection for personal web designs i like it very much…
Great job Andy
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Aftab Khalid (3 years ago)
This is Helvetica series
ForgeFunction (3 years ago)
nice list.
Bri Manning (2 years ago)
I think that the crucial part her is “Work Well.” These definitely do it, though many dark designs fail to hit the mark.
Peach (2 years ago)
Wow, these are all gorgeously done. All of these really do work well. Thanks for sharing such an inspire list of sites.
Darren (2 years ago)
Our website is dark too http://www.redstarcreative.co.uk
Alfie (2 years ago)
Creating a black or dark theme is quite a challenge. The collection in here nailed it.
Brad (2 years ago)
Some amazing designs! Great list.
abhilash (2 years ago)
Nice collection.
adimaryanto (2 years ago)
Good website…… Dark is strong
greenwoodwebmarketing (2 years ago)
I love it. I love dark websites. When I design, I could not even notice its getting darker.
Debbie (2 years ago)
And my site: http://www.redkitecreative.com/
Nice collection, I love dark sites.
John Pitchers (2 years ago)
So many designers get dark sites wrong because they use too much solid black. Notice the subtly use of lighting and texture in most of these designs.
IceBoxDesigns (1 year ago)
Some really nice slick designs their, never new that a dark site could look so good, Thanks for posting!
Brad Davis (1 year ago)
Some great examples of dark websites.
The Sato site is my personal fav.
Steve (1 year ago)
Hey – I have a new site that’s just launched that uses a dark background: http://www.servantsbydesign.org/
Check it out – would love some feedback.
Vinny (1 year ago)
Love the dark sites. You are missing one though!
http://www.jointmedias.com/
inspire (10 months ago)
a nice collection
Mark Ford (6 months ago)
Great collection. Some great inspiration for a new project I’m working on. Thanks for sharing.
Ainsley (6 months ago)
Really nice dark websites! Here’s another list you should check out:
http://bloomwebdesign.net/myblog/impressive-dark-website-designs-for-inspiration/
Vicky (1 month ago)
Wow… awesome list. Thanks for sharing.